Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver — Production from both the newly commissioned Cerro Bayo mine in Chile and the recently acquired Martha mine in Argentina has Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) set to increase silver output by 50…

Vancouver — Higher gold prices and lower cash costs propelled Placer Dome (PDG-T) to a healthy profit in the first quarter of 2002, despite an 8% drop in production.The major earned US$43 million (or…

Vancouver — Bright Star Ventures (BSV-V) has outlined exploration targets on its 49-sq.-km Tulameen platinum project in the Cascade mountains of southwest British Columbia, about 26 km northwest of P…

Texasgulf will undertake a major exploration program this year in the vicinity of its Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario. This follows in the wake of its recent discovery of zinc-lead-silver minerali…

Barrick Gold (ABX-T) intends to quadruple exploration and development spending at the Alto Chicama property in north-central Peru to $20 million this year after finding a “significant gold discovery” …